Word
Het faillissement is een logische consequentie.
Meaning
The bankruptcy is a logical consequence.
Part of speech
sentence
Pronunciation
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Breakdown of Het faillissement is een logische consequentie.
zijn
to be
een
a/an
logisch
logical
de consequentie
the consequence
Questions & Answers about Het faillissement is een logische consequentie.
How could I add a formal phrase like in verband met de crisis (in connection with the crisis) to the start of this sentence?
If you start the sentence with a complex prepositional phrase, it takes up the first position and triggers inversion. You would say: In verband met de crisis is het faillissement een logische consequentie. The verb is must immediately follow the introductory phrase, coming before the subject het faillissement.
I usually use gevolg for "consequence" or "result". Why use consequentie here?
While both words translate to "consequence", gevolg is the more general and everyday word for a result or effect. Consequentie is slightly more formal and often implies a strictly logical, inevitable, or sometimes self-inflicted outcome of a specific situation. Using it here alongside logische makes the statement sound highly analytical.
Why does logische get an -e at the end after een?
Because consequentie is a de-word (de consequentie). When an adjective modifies a de-word, it almost always gets an -e ending, regardless of whether you use een, de, or no article at all. The rule where the -e is dropped after een only applies to het-words.
The word faillissement has a very non-Dutch spelling. How do I pronounce it?